What are they smoking?

Mon Sep 15 23:45:08 UTC 2003

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:18:26AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 
> Even worse of this is that you can't verify domain names under .net
> any more for 'existence' as every .net domain suddenly has a A record
> and then can be used for spamming...
> 
> From: Spammer <i at spam.using.verisign.eventhoughthisdomaindoesntexist.net>
> To: You <spamtarget at example.com>
> 
> Thank you Verisign! Now we need to check for existence of an MX
> and then just break a couple of RFC's in the process :(

Checking for NS or SOA record(s) is sufficient, neither are being returned,
only A records.

Of course, you could just block anything that resolves to netsol.

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What *are* they smoking?

What are they smoking?